Planet Burster! Defend your planet form spontaneously appearing planets. This is another Flash experiment for the mobile platform. This time it’s to test the touch functionality of the phone and how to detect and use touch events. Continue reading
I recently started using an Android 2.2 OS phone which has Flash 10. I’ve been toying with developing simple demos to test out the Flash capabilities of the phone. Then I decided to test out a simple Box2D demo I made as a modification of the demo by plasticsturgeon. Box2DFlash is an open source Physics Engine. Check it out. I look forward to working with it more in the future.
Check it out with your Android 2.2 phone. http://www.lostvectors.com/mobile/test4 Continue reading
Here’s a draft version of a Jack-o-Lantern Maker I made. I’m still adding to it. I will be adding more shapes soon. Stay tuned. Continue reading
There have been some questions as to why some of the graphics in Bowmaster Winter Storm are more detailed than they need to be (see this forum post). This prompted me to share my findings on Flash’s automagical ability to optimize graphics. Continue reading
Bowmaster Winter Storm Beta is now playable if you haven’t noticed. The game is constantly evolving with new updates every Friday (so far so good). Due to the frequency of changes it is not always possible to fully test the game and sometimes new features cause new issues. It is because of play testers like you that report new issues (see contact form) we’re able to find and fix bugs before the game is fully released. For this LostVectors is truly grateful. However, if you want to be even more helpful here’s how.
Download and install the debug version of the Flash player for your preferred browser (warning: read on before installing):
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html Continue reading
This week’s BMWS update is the result of some significant technical milestones both recent and past that enable the new Mage and Pikeman features. The new Mage magic shield and the Pikeman helmet features are brought to you by some nifty utility functions. Continue reading
An issue that caused some users to experience a dark black screen after purchasing upgrades has been fixed. Game on!
I’ve been too busy to update the devlog recently but I have in fact posted new content to Bowmaster Winter Storm every Friday for the past few weeks. Go check it out if you haven’t taken a look lately.
www.lostvectors.com/winterstormbeta
I’ve had some recent major triumphs, some mini defeats and mini triumphs lately. In the not so distant past I had some issues with a memory leak in Winter Storm. After much investigation and some thrashing I decided it was time to do some much needed refactoring. At this time I still had no real idea where the cause of the leak was. Continue reading
Yeah, so I’ve been working a lot and have been writing several devlogs but haven’t had a chance to post them until now. In short, I’ve been so busy working that I tend to use every last minute of the night performing "just one more test." I’m taking this short… Continue reading
This memory testing is quite the bug hunt. I’ve been testing between two computers and two browsers. I’ve been patting down every game object for illegal memory stashes. Offending code blocks are stripped and searched and sometimes even completely exterminated. Progress is being made little by little as I debug and optimize while innocent code is made to suffer inconvenient slow performing test operations.
